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Environment for Development Bogserier

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  • Fuel Taxes and the Poor

    The Distributional Effects of Gasoline Taxation and Their Implications for Climate Policy

    Redigeret af Thomas Sterner ...
    Serier serie Environment for Development
    Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. Increased fuel taxes carry the potential to mitigate carbon emissions, reduce congestion, and improve local urban environment. As such, higher gasoline taxes could prove to be a fundamental part of ... Læs mere

    622,17 kr.

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  • The Challenge of Rural Electrification

    Strategies for Developing Countries

    af Douglas F. Barnes ...
    Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.6 billion rural people in the world who are without electricity. The difficulties in bringing electricity to rural areas are formidable: Low population densities result in high capital and operating costs. Consumers are often poor, and their electricity ... Læs mere

    568,53 kr.

  • Oil in the Environment

    Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

    Redigeret af John A. Wiens ...
    What light does nearly twenty-five years of scientific study of the Exxon Valdez oil spill shed on the fate and effects of a spill? How can the results help in assessing future spills? How can ecological risks be assessed and quantified? In this, the first book on the effects of Exxon Valdez in fifteen years, scientists directly involved in studying the spill provide a comprehensive perspective on ... Læs mere

    220,01 kr.

  • Privatizing Water

    Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis

    af Karen Bakker ...
    Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource to for-profit companies. Private-sector activity was most concentrated—and contested—in large cities ... Læs mere

    201,25 kr.

  • Infrastructure

    The Social Value of Shared Resources

    af Brett M. Frischmann ...
    Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future of the Internet. Each of these involves a battle to control infrastructure resources, to establish ... Læs mere

    410,24 kr.

  • Oil and Governance

    State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply

    Redigeret af David G. Victor, David R. Hults, Mark C. Thurber ...
    National oil companies (NOCs) play an important role in the world economy. They produce most of the world's oil and bankroll governments across the globe. Although NOCs superficially resemble private-sector companies, they often behave in very different ways. Oil and Governance explains the variation in performance and strategy for NOCs and provides fresh insights into the future of the oil ... Læs mere

    526,64 kr.

  • A Sustainable Future for the Mediterranean

    The Blue Plan's Environment and Development Outlook

    Redigeret af Guillaume Benoit, Aline Comeau ...
    'Here's a work arriving just at the right moment and contributingnew insights at precisely the time when public opinion remains sceptical of the not very promising future we are preparing for our children, when governments balk at explaining to their electorates the vital but unpopular decisions that have to be taken and when civil society, with few ways and means, is finally becoming involved. ... Læs mere

    600,72 kr.

  • Genes from the Wild

    Using Wild Genetic Resources for Food and Raw Materials

    af Robert Prescott-Allen, Christine Prescott-Allen ...
    Serier serie Natural Resource Management Set
    Tomatoes could not be grown commercially without the help of their wild relatives. A single wild species of rice has helped double rice production in Asia. Wild silk-worms are enabling India to expand its silk industry. A wild carp with resistance to cold has been used to extend Soviet carp production further into the north.Wild genetic resources - the heritable characteristics of wild plants and ... Læs mere

    289,58 kr.

  • The Equitable Forest

    Diversity, Community, and Resource Management

    Redigeret af Carol J. Pierce Colfer ...
    While there continues to be refinement in defining and assessing sustainable management, there remains the urgent need for policies that create the conditions that support sustainability and can halt or slow destructive practices already underway. Carol Colfer and her contributors maintain that standardized solutions to forest problems from afar have failed to address both human and environmental ... Læs mere

    268,12 kr.

  • America's Renewable Resources

    Historical Trends and Current Challenges

    af Kenneth D. Frederick, Roger A. Sedjo ...
    Serier serie RFF Natural Resource Management Set
    By recording one country's experience with its vast natural resource base, America's Renewable Resources: Historical Trends and Current Challenges will help to inform the management of future demands on the resource base in the U.S. and throughout the world. The contributors focus specifically on renewable resources--water, forests, rangeland, cropland and soils, and wildlife--which possess the ... Læs mere

    600,72 kr.

  • The Allocation of Regulatory Competence in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

    af Josephine van Zeben ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
    The European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is the world's largest carbon trading market. This book offers a new perspective on the EU ETS as a multi-level governance regime, in which the regulatory process is composed of three distinct 'competences' - norm setting, implementation, and enforcement. Are these competences best combined in a single regulator at one level of government or ... Læs mere

    1.139,75 kr.

  • Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics

    Human-Nature, Rural-Urban Interdependencies

    Redigeret af Wu JunJie, Paul Barkley, Bruce Weber ...
    Most land in the United States is in rural areas, as are the sources of most of its fresh water and almost all its other natural resources. One of the first books to approach resource economics and rural studies as fundamentally interconnected areas of study, Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics integrates the work of 18 leading scholars in resource economics, rural economics, rural sociology ... Læs mere

    622,17 kr.